2024-01-21 22:51:57
Toulouse, Bordeaux-Bègles, La Rochelle, Lyon and Racing 92, these are the five French clubs qualified for the round of 16. With the best student, Stade Toulouse, first in this group phase and the worst, Racing, bottom of the teams admitted to compete in the final phase from April 5, 6 and 7. According to the formula established by the EPCR, the organizer of the competition, Antoine Dupont and his teammates will face the Ile-de-France residents at home, in Haute-Garonne. If they pass the obstacle, Ugo Mola’s players will host the English from Exeter or Bath, whom they dominated with difficulty this Sunday (31-19).
They could then welcome Bordeaux-Bègles, another first in their group for a blue-white-red semi-final. The final will take place in London on May 25.
Racing 92 is an opponent that is “never easy to beat in the final phase,” warned the Stade Toulousain coach. Author of an impeccable 20/20 in the group stage after his fourth improved victory in a row against the English of Bath on Sunday (31-19), the five-time European champion will have to dismiss the Ile-de-France residents, to hope to benefit from a table which ensures that he will also receive in the event of qualification in the quarter-finals. “To think further than Racing would be to take ourselves for others” Mola quickly cut off before estimating that “at the start of the season, they are a scarecrow in the championship”
On the other side of the table, La Rochelle and Lyon will play their round of 16 in South Africa, respectively against the Cape Stormers and the Pretoria Bulls. In the event of a victory, the Rochelais, who, given their poor ranking, will play all their matches away, could find Leinster in Dublin. An opponent they have beaten in the final of the competition the last two seasons.
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